KELLEY v. HAAS


262 S.W.2d 687 (1953)

KELLEY et al. v. HAAS et al.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

December 4, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Woodward, Bartlett & McCarroll, Owensboro, for appellants.

King & Craig, Henderson, for appellees.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

John R. and James A. Kelley appeal from a judgment holding that George and Mary Haas, and their lessees, are the owners of the oil and gas rights under a certain tract of land in Henderson County. The controversy grows out of a deed executed in 1904, by the ancestors of the Kelleys to the predecessors in title of the Haases. The deed, immediately following the description of the property, contained this language:

"In this conveyance...

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